Tech Lead - Mobile Applications

Client: CapGemini

Role Title: Tech Lead - Mobile Applications
Duration: contract to run until 31/12/2025
Location: Sheffield, hybrid working
Rate: up to £400 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose / summary

As a Tech Lead, you'll play a critical role in leading the technical delivery of cutting-edge mobile features, mentoring an ambitious team, and working closely with stakeholders across product, UX, architecture, and DevOps. If you love creating scalable, high-performance apps and are passionate about building great teams and even better products - we want to meet you.

• Lead and mentor a talented mobile engineering team, ensuring technical excellence across projects.
• Guide architectural design, work prioritisation, and solution development in a collaborative environment.
• Drive scalability, performance, usability, and maintainability across our mobile products.
• Collaborate across product and engineering teams to design, build, test, and deploy impactful features.

Key Skills/ requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on native mobile development.
• At least 3+ years industry experience of using React Native
• Experience leading engineers for at least 1+ years within a mobile development environment.
• Deep expertise in React Native and strong working knowledge of Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into clear, achievable technical outcomes.
• Passion for robust, user-friendly mobile applications with high performance and security standards.
• A collaborative mindset - you're great at partnering across engineering, product, UX, and beyond.
• Strong coaching instincts: you lift others up and build strong, high-trust teams.
• A curious, continuous learner who brings new ideas and innovation to the table.
• Agile development experience across large-scale software products
• Support and coach engineers to grow their skills and confidence, fostering a positive, energising culture.
• Be hands-on: code, problem-solve, and innovate in a fast-moving agile environment.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!